U.S. patent number 11,006,593 [Application Number 15/996,080] was granted by the patent office on 2021-05-18 for methods of seed breeding using high throughput nondestructive seed sampling. This patent grant is currently assigned to Monsanto Technology LLC. The grantee listed for this patent is Monsanto Technology LLC. Invention is credited to David Butruille, Kevin L. Deppermann, Stanton Dotson, Sam Eathington, Heather Forbes, Michael W. Petersen, Bruce Schnicker, John Tamulonis.
United States Patent | 11,006,593 |
Butruille , et al. | May 18, 2021 |
A method is provided for use in a plant breeding program to generate a population having one or more desired traits. The method includes removing a tissue sample from each of one or more seeds using an automated seed sampler while preserving germination viability of the sampled seeds; analyzing the tissue samples for the presence or absence of a genetic sequence associated with at least one desired trait; based on the analysis of the tissue samples, cultivating plants from the sampled seeds that either possess or lack the genetic sequence associated with the at least one desired trait; creating a parental cross using at least one of the cultivated plants; and selecting seeds from the parental cross and cultivating offspring of the parental cross using the selected seeds.
Inventors: | Butruille; David (Des Moines, IA), Deppermann; Kevin L. (St. Charles, MO), Dotson; Stanton (Chesterfield, MO), Eathington; Sam (Ames, IA), Forbes; Heather (St. Charles, MO), Petersen; Michael W. (Sauk City, WI), Schnicker; Bruce (Wildwood, MO), Tamulonis; John (Nevada, IA) | ||||||||||
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Assignee: | Monsanto Technology LLC (St.
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Appl. No.: | 15/996,080 | ||||||||||
Filed: | June 1, 2018 |
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13108762 | Nov 20, 2012 | 8312672 | |||
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Current U.S. Class: | 1/1 |
Current CPC Class: | C12Q 1/6895 (20130101); A01H 1/02 (20130101); A01H 5/10 (20130101); A01H 1/04 (20130101); A01H 6/542 (20180501); C12N 15/8241 (20130101); A01H 1/08 (20130101); C12Q 2600/156 (20130101); C12Q 2600/13 (20130101) |
Current International Class: | A01H 1/02 (20060101); A01H 5/10 (20180101); C12Q 1/68 (20180101); A01H 1/04 (20060101); C12N 15/82 (20060101); C12Q 1/6895 (20180101); A01H 1/08 (20060101) |
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